lily’s terrible f1 sideblog

oscar:

Do you have any insight on what happened with Oscar? 

About 65% driver error 35% weird car behaviour

Piastri was using too much kerb when it wasn’t needed and had cold tyres, and was basically taking too much risk on a lap to the grid

The engines also have a weird quirk with power delivery, there wasn’t an issue per say, more so that he was revving the engine pretty high as he comes off the kerb (potentially because the battery wasn’t deploying enough power) and then there’s a torque spike which caught him off guard.

We’ve seen the torque spike happen a couple of times and it seems to be somewhat linked to poor battery deployment and heavy kerb usage but I can’t say for sure.

In his own words "I think the first part I want to stress is that there is certainly a big element of it that was me. Cold tyres, I have used that exit kerb every lap of the weekend, but I didn't have to. At the same time, I had about 100kW extra power that I didn't expect, which is not insignificant.”

i know leclerc is still alive and still driving but like....

died [whenever] born 2026

welcome back charles leclerc in monaco circuit